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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 4, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 11, 1995 featuring Fullheart Phil Free, freeradioster and streetsongman

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The September 4, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 11, 1995. 

It includes:

  • [8-27-97] Food Not Bombs activist copwatching Golden Gate Park harassment
  • “Hounddog the Hosts” table report with in-studio guest/host Fullheart Phil Free
  • Street Performers Voluntary Guidelines and the 1-hour Move-Along Law
  • Phil’s “Disturbing the Police..er..Police Ticket” and a Review of Former Violators
  • In-studio activist S.F. David Grace’s perspective on ill-paid Nazi-esque Hospitality Hosts
  • Grace on S.F. Mayor Juggernaut Jordan’s Matrix II Program
  • Shane Sheldon—young and poor on the S.C. streets
  • Hostwatcher Brett and Santa Barbara Host on her job

Coffeetalk and occasional new news at the weekly HUFF meeting Thursday September 4 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific, next door to the Bike Church, in search of restoring local human rights

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RUF Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 9-4-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims.  This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added before & at the Thursday [9-4] meeting.


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items That Require Immediate Planning and/or Action: MHCAN Closure; County RV law.

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition         Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionnaire

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, and Keeley-Huffaker Edicts

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Sept 4  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5   8:30 AM- 4 PM “Know Their Names”—Honoring Martyred Gazan Children  12 PM – 1 PM Press Conference  4 PM Silent March from Ocean & Water    4:30 Town Clock Name Reading, Signs     5:15 PM Silent March   5:30 PM-7:30 PM Silent March to Cooper St.    7:30 PM- Late Evening  Visual Images           

Saturday sept 6   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving   Palestine Justice Coalition          

Saturday sept 6 and Sunday sept 7 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++   Initially sunny then sunny/cloudy for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   Attorney Kate Wells death: Check out HUFF site Descriptions or Flashbacks for more herstory

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp Demolition

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Older Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.  

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 31, 2025 show is a short one with a few cries of outrage against the Gaza genocide+ a Flashback to May 26, 1995 with a younger Keith McHenry, reports from San Francisco & Berkeley, + the Jolly Rogers Comedy Troupe

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The August 31, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to May 26, 1995 includes:

  • Update on Food Not Bombs in San Francisco + Santa Cruz news
  • Berkeley’s struggle and its Sitting Ban
  • Tips for Talking or Not Talking to Cops
  • Tents Up! At the Back Forty Coral St. Open-Air Shelter?
  • Cornerstone Carol Denney’s struggle fight UCSC’s Takeover of People’s Park
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: “FCC Faces Private Broadcaster”; “Santa Cruz Faces Border Patrol”; “Shopping Struggle  with Buck Moneylover”
  • Santa Barbara’s Sleeping Ban and the Santa Ana Tobe Decision
  • Bacon’s Rebellion: from Radicalism in America by Sidney Lens
  • Report on the Santa Cruz Mediators
  • Community Policing in Berkeley and Santa Cruz
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Banning of Activists from Public Meetings of Supervisors at the Coonerty Book Store
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: “Berkeley Police Review Commission Capers”; “How Stupid Can You Get?”

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 28, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 12, 2000 & November 16, 2000 interviewing activist Flower (11-12) and covering in detail City Council’s killing of the homeless Safe Zones (11-16)

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The August 28, 2025 show is, in part, a Flashback to November 12, 2000.  It features some of that show including:

  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on fingerprinting Food Stamp recipients
  • In-studio guest Flower on Food Stamp reduction, the Eichorn (necessity defense for survival campers) Decision, and recent ejection from a CHAM San Jose Community Homeless Association Ministry scene
  • Dead-on David Silva’s nighttime call-in protest to City Councilettes
  • Scope-it-Out Scott Graham from his Dominican hospital bed on phony “public process” at Santa Cruz Action Network [SCAN] steering committee sabotaging Hispanic relocation rights in the Dolphin-Lee (Nueva Vista project), and City Council pork-filled agenda review

The August 28, 2025 show is also in part, a Flashback to November 16, 2000.  The segment of the 11-16 show archived includes:

  • “Progressive” Beiers City Council majority kills the Safe Zones, in the wake of Boxer Billy’s death by freezing outside; Councilmember Fitzmaurice’s failure to provide Winter Shelter update
  • Midnight June 27-28 session rushing advocates urging Safe Zones rather than Armory; activists threatened and evicted.
  • Sugar ejects Norse for silent “yak yak” gesture for Council falsehoods about homeless shelter

HUFF cools it with calm but chaotic colloquy at the usual 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Cafe) 1:30-3:30 PM next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-28-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added at the Thursday [8-28] meeting]


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition         Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionaire

++++   This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went) & Pajaro Demolition

++++   MHCAN Closure—Response?

++++   Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++   Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair

++++   Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Meetings Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday August 28  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday August 30 11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving   Palestine Justice Coalition           Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos   1817 Soquel Ave.  Could be free.

Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday September 1   8:30 AM- 11 AM   “Workers Over Billionaires” Protest  13190 CA-9, Boulder Creek    

Monday September 1 Noon-2:30  PM Barbecue & Fish fry  sc vets Hall  746 Front St.More events   T B A

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++    Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp DemolitionNew Media Stories  : Next week perhaps

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 24, 2025 show features activist power at the Stupervipers; commentary from McHenry and White+ a Flashback to September 2, 2012 with Pastor Steve de Garbres DeFields, SC 11 trial struggle, & PeaceCamp 2010 Aftermath

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The August 24, 2025 show includes:

  • Audio for Western Region Advocacy Project (WRAP)’s 20th Anniversary birthday celebration with Paul Boden, Monica–Disability Rights Advocate, Philippine activist Kersten, Poor Magazine Poets, L.A.s General Doegun, Adam of LACAN, all in video at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60HWb2mOdlw&t=239s
  • [Throughout] recent stark musical cries against U.S./Israeli genocide by singer David Rovics from his recent additions at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/songs-for-gaza/
  • “Whip Back the Wicked” Wes White’s California Homeless Union update prioritizing 8-25 Pajaro Camp Demolition
  • “Katzenjammer” Keith on his recent arrest at the Parking Garage groundbreaking 8-20
  • Making Contact addenda: “Cleaner” War with Drones
  • “Free the Land” show with a Peace Camp 2010 Flashback

The Flashback to September 2, 2012 includes:

  • Pastor Steve de DeFields Gambrel Circle Church update
  • Dialogue with Fresno-based Mathew Embri
  • 8-2 Surfer David, Mel Nunez, James, Santo—street interviews
  • 8-3 SC11 Protest March with Bi-Polar Bear (aka Dreamcatcher), Jack Cole
  • 80’s Mime Troupe songs from Fact Wino v. Armageddon Man
  • “Ground Zero” Gary, “Lighthouse” Linda, and Norse on their upcoming trials  
  • Menace of the City’s P&R “Access and Use” Chapter (MC 13.04)
  • Skidmark Bob from Copwatch and Free Radio to P&R employee
  • Occupy Roxanne of the Food Justice Coalition

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 21, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 21, 2012 featuring Jen Waller and Tom Henze Traveling Resistance Supporters, More on the Court Struggle Defending the S.C. 11 and bits from Lighthouse Linda, Dead-on David & More

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The August 21, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 21, 2025. 

It includes:

  • [throughout] Jen Walker’s political music from “Broken Down”]
  • “Backstory” Brent Adams—his video journal you-tube posting “What Are You Doing Here?”—Inside Occupy Santa Cruz:  https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8iyK7Nx1Wtc&t=34s
  • [8-19] Jen Walker and Tom Hintze, hosted at Attorney and House-arrested Ed Frey’s place on a city-to-city tour with legal & jail training against police repression of Occupy.
  • Bathrobespierre and Brent recall details of the final repression of the Benchlands
  • Questions and reports from the Frey Forum by many voices.
  • Lighthouse Linda on ways to break down institutional police walls
  • CAO Susan Muriello’s Courthouse curfew and Downtown Ordinance talk.
  • Jen and Tom report on their visits to Occupy’s across the country.
  • Making Contact: Can Law Enforcement Unions Change?

Hot weather or not, HUFF’s “Loose Cannons” meeting fires away 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Thursday August 21 at the Sub Rosa Care, 703 Pacific, next to the Bike Church

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RUF Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-21-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items.

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers, Vehicular  Crunching Flyer.   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition  Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionaire

++++   This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went)

++++   Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++   Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair

++++   Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Meetings Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday August 21  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday August 23  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos   1817 Soquel Ave.  Could be free.

Saturday August 24 and Sunday August 25 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.More events   T B A

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++    Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : Next week perhaps

++++    “Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/18/18879067.php?show_comments=1#18879071

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 17, 2025 show features quasi-establishment reports from D.C. on Trump’s anti-homeless war+ a Flashback to March 5, 2017 with Candlelight Kim, Freedom Sleepout 86, and lots more

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The August 17, 2025 show includes 

  • Furious Facebook posting:  Alicia Kuhl outraged irony; Tyler, Sonya, and Wes chime in.
  • [throughout] David Rovics’ enraged response to the U.S. armed Gaza slaughter
  • Alternate media on Trump’s planned D.C. raids against the vulnerable homeless
  • 2 Logans and Shawn interviews in the aftermath of today’s earlier Coral Street sweeps
  • [8-9 & 8-16]  Dedicated Drew on the weekend Food Not Bombs 3-hour meal
  • Sean reports on this year’s Rainbow Gathering
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on elder life and discrimination in the S.C. outskirts
  • HUFFster Athena reports on “at least the 5th[successive] weekly Coral St. sweep” in front of the Housing Matters [aka “Funding Matters”] poverty-industrial complex.
  • Frequently seized “Danger” describes the SCPD routine.

The Flashback to March 5, 2017 includes: 

  • Entrapment, abuse, and criminalization: Council-Cop collaboration
  • Rent stabilization in Santa Cruz?
  • Freedom Sleep Out #86: adjacent Council meeting on SCPD cop Bradley’s Arlt shooting back in October; cops withholding Officer’s Report and D.A. investigation; Viper on City tent theft
  • S.F.’s Jan Chan story—audio of video exchange
  • [2-26] Candlelight Kim’s eviction from the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center for a bite of bread; Bob Lamonica, Keith M., and a homeless library patron “suspended” for making faces at a computer screen.
  • More on the Sean Arlt killing and Chief Vogel’s apologia for ICE agent in the SCPD
  • Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 28, 2016 featuring a 2-hours long exchange with Backstory Brent Adams and a mini-Flashback to Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s August 19, 2003 Erasable Political Chalking Arrest

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The August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback August 28, 2025 which includes:

  • In-studio guest Brent Adams, Warming Center founder,  critical of “alienating” activist tactics, 
  • [throughout] songs by radical political songster Ryan Harvey
  • Brent on Phil Kramer and the 180-180 Program
  • Point-in-Time count talk; Joey killing; and new Pacific Ave. ordinance.
  • Brent on Past Protest Camps
  • Flashback to Sept. 2002—Becky Johnson’s 8-19 arrest for political chalk
  • John Malkin’s show on 12-13-14, Natl Day of Protest Against Police Violence